Adalbert de Vogüé et les éditions critiques des règles monastiques anciennes

Abstract

Father A. de Vogüé is best known for his monumental editions of the Rule of Saint Benedict (RB) and the Rule of the Master (RM), but he also contributed to the editions by other researchers. The scientific character of his work and his breadth of research have been praised. With regard to the relations between RM, RB and the florilegium in Paris, BnF, Latin 12634, François Masai and Eugène Manning criticized Vogüé for considering them as static documents, whereas these researchers considered them to be dossiers in constant evolution and interaction. Vogüé’s position is now favoured ; the conferences published in the collection Regulae Benedicti studia (1971-1985) reflect these discussions. Michaela and Klaus Zelzer reviewed the entire manuscript tradition of the RB. To the three branches recognized by Ludwig Traube (pure text, contaminated text, received post-Carolingian text), they add a monastic text dating before Benedict of Aniane, of which the oldest fragments are preserved in the Rule of Donatus of Besançon. A list of the editions of the sixth- and seventhcentury monastic rules gives a census of the manuscripts used and ecdotic criteria, especially their use of the Concordia regularum of Benedict of Aniane. The critical edition of the Concordia by Pierre Bonnerue now facilitates use of that anthology.